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That includes 10 people at Royal Lancaster Infirmary, eight patients at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, five patients at Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, five people at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and two patients at Royal Blackburn Hospital.

Across the North West as a whole, there are 2587 cases, including Manchester, Liverpool, Cumbria and Cheshire.

These include 425 confirmed cases in Cumbria, 94 in Rochdale, 51 in Bolton, 75 in Bury, 86 in Sefton, 72 in St Helens, 53 in Knowsley, 262 in Liverpool, 83 in Wirral, 65 in Cheshire West and Chester, 76 in Cheshire East, 32 in Halton, 107 in Stockport, 77 in Tameside, 114 in Oldham, 67 in Wigan, 40 in Warrington, 104 in Trafford, 129 in Salford and 155 in Manchester.

The total number has risen from 2,132 yesterday.

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Looking at the UK, the figured have increased with the biggest day-on-day rise so far.

There is now 29,474 cases in the UK and 2,352 have died after contracting the virus.

In England, there are 24,638 cases and a total of 2166 have died.

The exact number of cases is expected to be much higher than this.

Shopper wears face mask in the North West (Image: STEVE ALLEN)

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The figures come as Boris Johnson has insisted testing is “the way” through the coronavirus crisis.

The Government continues to face intense pressure over its policy when it comes to testing.

The Prime Minister took to Twitter to stress the importance of testing in a message to the public, saying it is how “we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle”.

It came as Professor Paul Cosford, emeritus medical director of Public Health England (PHE), admitted “everybody involved is frustrated” by the low number of tests being carried out.

He pointed to ongoing capacity issues and said the “core priority” until now has been testing hospital patients with suspected Covid-19.

Coronavirus in Lancashire

PHE’s focus has been on NHS testing laboratories, while other work is now being led by the Office for Life Sciences to collaborate with universities and non-PHE labs, he said.

This follows accusations that PHE and the Government have been too slow to realise that a massive expansion in testing is needed and have snubbed offers of help from the wider scientific community.

In a video message on Twitter on Wednesday evening, Mr Johnson said: “I want to say a special word about testing, because it is so important, and as I have said for weeks and weeks, this is the way through.

“This is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle. This is how we will defeat it in the end.”

The PM said the Government needed to “massively ramp up” testing so NHS staff who are self-isolating unnecessarily could return to work.

He said work was ongoing on an antibody test to tell people whether they have had the virus and can safely return to their daily lives.

Prof Cosford told BBC Breakfast there is current capacity to do 13,000 tests which “more than meets the need for people who have illness” in hospital.

He said the emphasis is to test NHS staff so those who are isolating but not sick can return to work.